Tonalità: G major
Verse 1
F
Bb
C
F
Back in 1927
Bb
C
I had a little farm
and I call that heaven
F
Bb
And the prices up and the rain come down
C
And I hauled my crops all into town
F
I got the money
Bb
C
Bought clothes and groceries
F
C
Rared back, fed the kids
F
And raised me a family
Bb
C
F
Verse 2
Bb
Rain quit and the wind got high
C
And a black old dust storm filled the sky
F
And I swapped my farm for
Bb
a Ford machine
C
And I poured it full of this
gas- i- line
F
And it started
Bb
F
Rocking and a- rolling
C
Out of the Dust Bowl and across
the mountains
And away over toward
F
that old Peach Bowl
Bb
C
F
California
Bb
C
F
Bb
C
Verse 3
F
It was a- way up yonder
Bb
on a mountain road
C
I had a hot motor and a heavy load
F
And I was going pretty fast
Bb
And I wasn't even stopping
C
Just a- bouncing up and down like
popcorn popping
F
I had a breakdown
Bb
Sort of a nervous bust down
there of some kind or other
C
There was a feller there
A mechanic feller
Charged me thirteen dollars
Said it was engine trouble
F
Bb
C
F
Verse 4
Bb
Yeah, way up yonder on a mountain road
C
A- way high up in a piney wood
F
Bb
And I give that rolling Ford a shove
C
And I was going to coast
as fair as I could
F
Commenced to coasting
Bb
Picking up speed
F
C
Was a hairpin turn
Verse 5
I didn't make it
F
Bb
Man alive, I'm telling you
C
The fiddles and the guitars really flew
F
Bb
That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
C
And it flew halfway around
the world
F
Bb
Scattered wives, childrens
C
F
Bb
All over the side of that mountain
C
F
Verse 6
Bb
C
F
Bb
Well, we got out to the West Coast broke
C
So dadgum hungry I thought I'd croak
F
Bb
And I bummed up a spud or two
C
My wife fixed up a tater stew
F
Bb
C
We poured the kid s full of it
F
C
It was a mighty thin stew, though
F
You could read a magazine right through it
C
Gm
Bb
Always I figured that if that stew
C
had been just a little bit thinner
Some of them there politicians
G
C
F
could've seen through it
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AccordatoreE A D G B E
AccordiF Bb C Gm G
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